Jury Trials are a joke in this country.
A motionless Jackson dabbed at his eyes with a tissue as the verdicts were read, and he later was embraced by his chief lawyer, Thomas Mesereau Jr. Another member of his defense team burst into tears, and some of the women in the jury also wept and passed around a box of tissues.
So.... yeah. Jury Trials are a joke. Particularly for celebrities. Holding a side the fact that the Prosecution was definetely stretching with the conspiracy counts, does anyone honestly believe that a non-Michael Jackson accused Child Molester would be walking out of the courtroom in anything but a not so fashionable pair of matching wrist and ankle bracelets??
On the Jurors
Anyone who could actually get on a jury in this country has no business deciding anything. For two reasons. The first, anyone competent, regardless of formal education, is going to be given a pass by Defense Attorneys. Seems like step one in any jury trial is take the "reason" out of "Reasonable doubt."
And, two, most "reasonable" people would want nothing to do with a trial like this. The idea of being kept away from one's jobs and personal projects for some absurd and indefinete amount of time doesn't appeal to most of us. So what's left are either people who think getting 40 bucks a day sounds pretty appetizing, or those who want to be near the celebritiy of this case. So you're left with jury pools that look like the cast of "Survivor." And considering that on that show every year some moron gets sent home for getting bitten by a snake or some other mishaps, while surrounded by FILM CREWS, I think that says something right there.
You know the Athenians had the same problem with their legal system more than twenty-five hundred years ago. They paid people for attending their juries, and apparently it ended up that every legal case was being decided by those serving on juries as a form of welfare, with no real interest in actually determining Justice... probably more interested in a lucrative book-deal.
So.... yeah. Jury Trials are a joke. Particularly for celebrities. Holding a side the fact that the Prosecution was definetely stretching with the conspiracy counts, does anyone honestly believe that a non-Michael Jackson accused Child Molester would be walking out of the courtroom in anything but a not so fashionable pair of matching wrist and ankle bracelets??
On the Jurors
Anyone who could actually get on a jury in this country has no business deciding anything. For two reasons. The first, anyone competent, regardless of formal education, is going to be given a pass by Defense Attorneys. Seems like step one in any jury trial is take the "reason" out of "Reasonable doubt."
And, two, most "reasonable" people would want nothing to do with a trial like this. The idea of being kept away from one's jobs and personal projects for some absurd and indefinete amount of time doesn't appeal to most of us. So what's left are either people who think getting 40 bucks a day sounds pretty appetizing, or those who want to be near the celebritiy of this case. So you're left with jury pools that look like the cast of "Survivor." And considering that on that show every year some moron gets sent home for getting bitten by a snake or some other mishaps, while surrounded by FILM CREWS, I think that says something right there.
You know the Athenians had the same problem with their legal system more than twenty-five hundred years ago. They paid people for attending their juries, and apparently it ended up that every legal case was being decided by those serving on juries as a form of welfare, with no real interest in actually determining Justice... probably more interested in a lucrative book-deal.
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